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Casualty Info
Home Town Lexington
Last Address High Shoals, GA
Casualty Date Jul 27, 1950
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Artillery, Rocket, Mortar
Location Korea, South
Conflict Korean War
Wall/Plot Coordinates High Shoals Cem., Oconee, GA
PFC Aaron was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment, and later the 29th Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy along the southwest of the Pusan Perimeter near Hadong, South Korea on July 27, 1950.
He enlisted during WWII on 13 July 1945 to 16 Jan 1947, serving in occupied Germany.
After a short break, he re-enlisted on 23 Nov 1948.
PFC Aaron is the first name to be put the Korean War Memorial
The National Park Service and the memorial’s foundation announced Monday that the wall will include the names of 36,574 Americans and more than 7,200 Koreans, who served as advisers and interpreters in what was called the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA).
